About the little brown mouse.

I’m just a simple 30 something year old woman with a not so simple life.

Nothing to look at; overweight, short, hormonal girl, living in a tiny country town in rural NSW.

Plain. Mousey.

I love to write though and it makes me feel beautiful.

I hate the telephone, love scrapbooking, love, love LOVE photography and I love my family.

Oh yeah and blogging.

My favourite food is ice cream.

Here’s the thing;

I have seven children.

Yes.

You heard me right.

Seven.

Before you tell me I’m crazy or a breeder or say something weird like; ‘You must have your hands full’ or Don’t you know what a television is?’, just keep reading.

Ok?

I didn’t plan it that way. I wanted four children, so still a big family, in this day and age but I can honestly say I never thought I would have that many kids.

The thing is, I cheated.

I had a set of twins first up, then a singleton two years later.

When she was two we took on fostering our two nephews. It was supposed to be temporary. Now we have permanent custody of them until they turn 18.

I’ve lost a baby when he was five days old in 2004.

That led us to try again and in 2005 we welcomed our second set of twins.

So, there you go.

Cheated.

I am married to my long suffering husband, who I love very much.

I was a midwife in another life but at the moment, I am practicing at being a SAHM.

I say practicing because this is the first time I haven’t worked in…well, a long time.

This home is busy, challenging, noisy, chaotic and I love it… most of the time.

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Trish (158 comments.) said December 18, 2007, 6:03 pm:

you sell you yourself short, my friend - you are beautiful inside and out.
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Joh (13 comments.) (subscribed) said January 6, 2008, 11:56 am:

I love this new home. Gorgeous, colourful headers, it’s bright and beautiful, just like it’s author. I agree with Trish!
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Karen MEG (19 comments.) said January 14, 2008, 11:10 am:

I am in awe. You must be a special woman indeed. I surfed in through your WW comment on my blog. I already love what I see!
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frogpondsrock (99 comments.) said February 8, 2008, 12:02 pm:

You know Tiff, I have seen your photo and I would never in a million years describe you as mousy or plain.. gosh woman You ARE Beautiful..

cheers kim…
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Frogdancer (1 comments.) said February 16, 2008, 6:49 am:

Seven kids is huge.
I stopped at four. Boys. In five years. No twins. (Does that mean I didn’t cheat???)
My reason was different. I was after a girl.
Now our house rule is that we have female pets.
It works pretty well too.
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Chris H (4 comments.) said March 11, 2008, 10:04 am:

I win! I had 6 kids in 10 years .. 3 girls first, 3 boys next (clever eh?) then we took on two grandchildren when our youngest was 10… a girl and a year later a boy… so I have 8! I quite like the number 8. I don’t want 9… it’s an odd number and I like them EVEN!
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Mary said March 18, 2008, 1:29 pm:

Well, I always wondered what the “little brown mouse” was, and finally clicked through today.
Silly me. I thought it was a little icon running around your posts, which somehow I had always missed. On the order of “Where’s Waldo?”…and if I spotted it I would win a prize.
Then I discover that it is a reference to the bloggarific author herself?!
You ARE beautiful! Those of us who have met you in person knew that as soon as we saw you, if not before. I have to think you said “mousey” only to make us laugh.
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Dr.Cason (16 comments.) (subscribed) said May 23, 2008, 9:18 pm:

7 wow. We’re discussing going for the fourth.

I’m so sorry for your loss. I read William’s story.

I look forward to getting to know you and your family….

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